Mainframe Team Lead/Manager - Banking - Cardiff

Mainframe Team Lead/Manager - Banking - Cardiff

A leading organisation in the Cardiff area requires a Mainframe Team Lead/Manager with strong experience of supporting mainframe environments and scheduling activities. Suitable candidates will have the following:

• Good knowledge of mainframe operations, enterprise scheduling, and batch processing - ideallly within a Unisys environment but can flex on this.
• Strong experience of leading production or IT operations teams
• Confidence working in incident and major incident environments, making decisions under pressure
• A passion for automation and continuous improvement
• Experience improving operational resilience and recovery practices
• Strong analytical thinking, using data to drive decisions and improvements
• Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across teams and partners
• Awareness of risk, governance, and working in regulated environments (desirable)

Additionally, the successful candidate will exhibit the folloiwng qualities:

• Leads with clarity and builds high-performing, resilient teams
• Stays calm and makes sound decisions—even in high-pressure situations
• Thinks ahead, designing systems and processes with recovery and stability in mind
• Sees opportunities to simplify through automation and smarter ways of working
• Builds strong relationships and brings people together to solve problems